LOWELL, Mass., May 10, 2006 - M/A-COM, Inc, a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a worldwide leader of critical radio communication systems, today announced that its Project 25 (P25IP) portable radios have been accepted by the State of Colorado, for use on the Colorado Statewide Digital Trunked Radio (DTR) system. State, local, federal and tribal agencies requiring Project 25-standard critical radio interoperability will now have the opportunity to purchase M/A-COM’s 7100IP family of radios to communicate with neighboring agencies across Colorado. The software-defined 7100IP radios are designed to excel in the challenging public safety environment and operate in multiple radio system environments, including EDACS or ProVoice trunked modes, as well as Project 25 digital and conventional analog modes.
“Having extensively tested M/A-COM’s P25-compliant radios within the unique framework of Colorado’s statewide radio system, we are confident that these radios support the performance and functionality standards necessary for use by our users,” said Mike Borrego, Digital Trunked Radio project manager, Colorado Division of Information Technologies. “We are extremely pleased to now have the option of utilizing these effective and affordable P25 radios and believe that they can provide reliable, interoperable communications for our most mission-critical situations. The addition of the M/A-COM radios now brings the number of subscriber manufacturers to four that are capable of working on DTR.”
The 7100IP product series consists of two-way digital radios that deliver P25-compliant voice and Internet Protocol (IP)-based data communications in a single package. The P7100IP portable radio and its counterpart, the M7100IP mobile radio, are software defined Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based two-way radios. P7100IP radios combine robust physical packages with configuration flexibility to meet the demands of public safety users. In addition to interoperability with other vendors’ radio equipment, the P7100IP and M7100IP radios also operate on other vendors P25-compliant conventional or trunking infrastructure including repeaters and consoles. These 7100IP radios can provide the latest and most secure communications using the federally developed AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption algorithm validated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to be compliant with the FIPS-197.
“We feel it’s important that public safety agencies to have choices in the radios that they carry with them,” said John Facella, Public Safety market director, M/A-COM. “This recent recognition from the State of Colorado proves that our P25IP portable and mobile radios can operate on another vendor’s P25 system. This is only the latest in a series of tests that we have been doing for many months on other systems in Phoenix, Louisville, Michigan, several military bases, and other locations, to ensure that the promise of P25 interoperability among different vendors’ radios has been kept.”
M/A-COM, Inc., a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is a leading supplier of critical communications systems and equipment for public safety, utility, federal and select commercial markets. Products range from some of the most advanced IP-based voice and data networks, to traditional wireless systems that offer customers the highest levels of reliability, interoperability, scalability and security. M/A-COM is also a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave solutions for the commercial wireless telecommunications, aerospace and defense industries. Headquartered in Lowell, MA, M/A-COM has offices and manufacturing facilities worldwide. Information about M/A-COM can be found on the Web at www.macom.com or www.macom-wireless.com.
“Having extensively tested M/A-COM’s P25-compliant radios within the unique framework of Colorado’s statewide radio system, we are confident that these radios support the performance and functionality standards necessary for use by our users,” said Mike Borrego, Digital Trunked Radio project manager, Colorado Division of Information Technologies. “We are extremely pleased to now have the option of utilizing these effective and affordable P25 radios and believe that they can provide reliable, interoperable communications for our most mission-critical situations. The addition of the M/A-COM radios now brings the number of subscriber manufacturers to four that are capable of working on DTR.”
The 7100IP product series consists of two-way digital radios that deliver P25-compliant voice and Internet Protocol (IP)-based data communications in a single package. The P7100IP portable radio and its counterpart, the M7100IP mobile radio, are software defined Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based two-way radios. P7100IP radios combine robust physical packages with configuration flexibility to meet the demands of public safety users. In addition to interoperability with other vendors’ radio equipment, the P7100IP and M7100IP radios also operate on other vendors P25-compliant conventional or trunking infrastructure including repeaters and consoles. These 7100IP radios can provide the latest and most secure communications using the federally developed AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption algorithm validated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to be compliant with the FIPS-197.
“We feel it’s important that public safety agencies to have choices in the radios that they carry with them,” said John Facella, Public Safety market director, M/A-COM. “This recent recognition from the State of Colorado proves that our P25IP portable and mobile radios can operate on another vendor’s P25 system. This is only the latest in a series of tests that we have been doing for many months on other systems in Phoenix, Louisville, Michigan, several military bases, and other locations, to ensure that the promise of P25 interoperability among different vendors’ radios has been kept.”
M/A-COM, Inc., a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is a leading supplier of critical communications systems and equipment for public safety, utility, federal and select commercial markets. Products range from some of the most advanced IP-based voice and data networks, to traditional wireless systems that offer customers the highest levels of reliability, interoperability, scalability and security. M/A-COM is also a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave solutions for the commercial wireless telecommunications, aerospace and defense industries. Headquartered in Lowell, MA, M/A-COM has offices and manufacturing facilities worldwide. Information about M/A-COM can be found on the Web at www.macom.com or www.macom-wireless.com.
